SHIPPING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13108, 6 May 1908, Page 11

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Kcnconer Amelia. Sims loaded a cargo' of Newcastle ooa.l ex the Brisbane yesterday for Wan »amii. The veerel will sail this morning, and a'ter discharging at Waaiffanui. will go to Havelock to load timber for Wellinßion. The Mnraroa was floated into dock yesterday morning for and painthre. She will bo brought out and will ©nter tho Lvtte-;ion-"Wellin.ston ferry service tonight, in place of the Kotomahana. Captain

W. Manning ne in command of the Mararoa. The Toroa is due here this afternoon from Gisborne, and will be docked ior cl-eaning, painting and general overhaul. The Shaw, Savill steamer Waiwera, with part original oargo from London, ia to leave Port Chalmers this morning for Lyttelton, and will arrive hero to-morrow morning-. The Brisbane is to rail this morning for Kaipara, to load timber for Melbourne. Tho N«w Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Wakawui is to ceil at 6 o'clock this evening for where she.will replenish her bunkcra. The Shaw, Savill liner lonic is to sail at 5 p.m. to-day for Gisborne to load frozen meat. The big steamer is due beck here on Monday next. An order for 1,000,000 feet of Oregon pino has been placed by Mr William Cook, of LytteMon, who informed the shipping reporter of "The Press" that thia timber will be brought to this port by steamer in two shipments. The first shipment will leave the Pacific Coast in July. The N«w Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Faporoa, which left Plymouth on March 21st, arrived at Hobart on Monday morning, having called at Teneriffe and Capetown on route. Tho vessel is due at Wellington about Saturday. Tbe Maoriland Shipping Company's steamer Ennerdale arrived at Wellington on Monday morning. The vessel left Editabusrg on April 23rd, and had an uneventful trip. The Ennerdale's shipment consist? of about 1500 tone of salt, 600 tone of which are consigned to Wellington. The remainder of the cargo is for discharge* at Timaru, for which port the,vessel was expected to leave on Monday evening. The Ennerdale is to load at southern poets for Auckland and Wellington on completion at Timaru. The WairimoQ. due at Wellington, about midday to-day, is bringing 59 saloon and 83 steerage passengers from Sydney. She will arrivo sit Lyttelton on Friday morning, and will sail in the afternoon on arrival of the 4 p.m. train for Dunedin, Bluff, Hob art, and Melbourne. The Surrey left Wellington on. Monday for Napies, whence she is to sail fin-ally for Avonmoiith, via Monte Video and Madeox*. The barque Fram, which left Westport for iM»tupui, New Britain, on February 23th, arrived thereafter a smart voyage of 29 days. Tbe "Westpcrt Times" etatos th*t sh* will return to Westport. The steamer Go wan bum, 4/ZI& tone, which has just delivered in New Zealand one load of coal, is under time charter to the Union Company to load further ebipmeats for Dominion ports. The erection of the fog signal at Cuvier Island lighthouse (says tie "Auckland Star") will supply a long-felt "want. It is tho first landmark wighted after crossins the Bay of Plenty, and , "lies to. the trade of nearly all vessels trading south of Cape Col villa , In thick weather it is often impossible to make out the light, but with the addition of a fog signal the mariners' task will be lrghtoraect for. in anything but the wildest weather the warning note will resound for a. distance of five or six miles around. The mechanism is based on the detonaitor principle, sound being produced bj a series of detonations magnified by a Bounding tube. Tho contrivance will be ■worked automatically, so that "there witlfl>o no irregularity in the signals. , On Sunday morning, reports the "Post, , ' the tramp steamer Aymerio dragged her anchors in Wellington harbour, during , a strong north-wc-st wind. The. vessel drifted across the harbour towards Point Jerningham. She wae in very lig-ht trim, her propeller being, visible above the water, and she also appeared to have very little steam up. How-* ever, when she was uncomfortably close to tbe rocks, she managed to draw away, and sought a fresh anchorage. After taking in ISO tons of bunker coal, the Aymerio left on Monday evening, in continuation of her passage from Valparaiso, to Sydney., where she is to be docked. Tho Canopus sailed at mid-day yesterday for Westport, and is due back here »t the end of the week with another Umd of coal. The Tysex steamer Indraghiri is due here about Sunday, from Liverpool, via Auckland and Wellington. A The vessel underwent an extensive overhaul while at Glasgow. Tho Indraghiri left Liverpool, ber final port, on February 2Sth. After discharging about 800 tons of cargo at this port, the Indiaghiri Bails for Dunedin to complete. .